Speaker 1: Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick.
Speaker 2: I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast.
Speaker 1: I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope
Speaker 1: this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith.
Speaker 2: Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving
Speaker 2: in your life.
Speaker 1: Enjoy the message from the front to the back. Say
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Speaker 2: Say that's something, that's the something happens.
Speaker 1: That's just something. That's just something.
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Speaker 3: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
Speaker 1: Jes Luke chapter eleven.
Speaker 2: Luke Chapter eleven, a familiar scripture for our Bible study today,
Speaker 2: remains standing for the Word of God. I want to
Speaker 2: welcome you from wherever this message is finding you. I
Speaker 2: pray that this word today finds you blessed, and if not,
Speaker 2: maybe it'll leave you blessed when we get done. I
Speaker 2: found out God never leaves me like he found me.
Speaker 2: He meets me where I am, but He loves me
Speaker 2: too much to leave me there. So, however you came
Speaker 2: in today, go ahead and say goodbye to it right now,
Speaker 2: because you are not returning to that state of mind
Speaker 2: when you leave this church today. In Jesus' name, are
Speaker 2: y'all all right if we just sing a bunch of
Speaker 2: new songs all month of September. All right, We're gonna
Speaker 2: declare it new Song September, and then we will culminate
Speaker 2: on September the twenty.
Speaker 1: Six with a big old recording.
Speaker 2: Y'all gonna come in here singing at the top of
Speaker 2: your lungs September twenty fifth. If you come on September
Speaker 2: twenty six, you're gonna be singing solo.
Speaker 1: So low they can't hear you. I'm a happy man.
Speaker 1: I have a full phone. We have so many new
Speaker 1: songs to share with you, and I thank God for it. Today.
Speaker 2: The word of the Lord comes from Luke chapter eleven,
Speaker 2: and I thank him for the deposit and the download
Speaker 2: that he gave me.
Speaker 1: And I want to share it with you now, just
Speaker 1: like he gave it to me.
Speaker 2: Luke, chapter eleven. And you'll recognize it once we get
Speaker 2: to verse number two. One day Jesus was praying in
Speaker 2: a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples
Speaker 2: said to him, Lord, teach us to pray just as
Speaker 2: John taught his disciples.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to read this that was in the
Speaker 1: NIV version where I normally read.
Speaker 2: I'm going to read this in the new King James
Speaker 2: version because it's more familiar to many of us who
Speaker 2: heard it growing up. So if you're confused looking on
Speaker 2: your Bible, this is a little different translation than we
Speaker 2: normally use. So he said to them, when you pray,
Speaker 2: say our Father in heaven, hollow, it be your name.
Speaker 1: There is no other name. Hollow would be your name.
Speaker 1: There is no other name.
Speaker 2: Your name, your kingdom. Come, Your will be done on
Speaker 2: earth as it is in heaven. Give us, day by
Speaker 2: day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for
Speaker 2: we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And
Speaker 2: do not lead us into temptation. But deliver us from
Speaker 2: the evil one. How many want God to do that
Speaker 2: for you today? Deliver me from the evil one. Somebody
Speaker 2: shall deliver me. Yeah, deliver us from the evil one.
Speaker 2: I really read all of the scriptures to get to
Speaker 2: that part. Deliver us from the evil one. The title
Speaker 2: of my message today is delivered daily, Delivered daily.
Speaker 1: Put that into comments. Please delivered daily.
Speaker 2: Say it out loud, say delivered daily, and turn around
Speaker 2: and tell three people God can get you out of this.
Speaker 2: Come on, tell them with some confidence in charisma. Tell
Speaker 2: them with some eye contacts, say God can get you
Speaker 2: out of this. Put it in the comments.
Speaker 1: I don't care what it is.
Speaker 2: I don't care if it's a financial mess, I don't
Speaker 2: care if it's a relational mess. God can get you
Speaker 2: out of this. If it's in a pit with a
Speaker 2: snowy day and a lion, God can get you out
Speaker 2: of this. Yeah, if it's in a lions, then God
Speaker 2: can get you out of this.
Speaker 1: We thank you God for your deliverance now in this
Speaker 1: place in Jesus' name. Amen, you may be seen that
Speaker 1: believe God can get you out of this.
Speaker 4: Well, you don't know what it is, don't need to.
Speaker 4: I checked his resume. He got some people out of
Speaker 4: some stuff. Sometimes in the Bible, God can get you
Speaker 4: out of this. Maybe your mom can't, maybe she's broke too,
Speaker 4: But God can get you out of this. Maybe your
Speaker 4: husband can't, maybe he's depressed too, but God can get
Speaker 4: you out of this. Maybe your staff can't, maybe they're
Speaker 4: overwhelmed too, but God can get you out of this.
Speaker 1: Maybe your business partner can't, maybe he's worried too, but
Speaker 1: God can get you out of this. Nobody said amen,
Speaker 1: all right, well, let me give your testimony then, since
Speaker 1: you're gonna do me like that today.
Speaker 2: Up here, I'm privy pastorally to a lot of people
Speaker 2: sharing more extreme situations than the average bear. People walk
Speaker 2: up to me and tell me stuff that honestly, I
Speaker 2: don't have a license to hear. I mean, you get everything,
Speaker 2: and I mean everything everything, don't we. Holly stand there
Speaker 2: eating an ice cream cone one time in downtown Charleston
Speaker 2: and a lady came up crying, and Holly.
Speaker 1: Was stuck because she's like, it's really hot outside and
Speaker 1: she's like juwi.
Speaker 2: The other day, a man came up to me at
Speaker 2: Abby's soccer game. He blessed my whole day, and he
Speaker 2: helped me figure out how I wanted to preach this
Speaker 2: message to you. He was very emotional when we met.
Speaker 2: He said, you don't know what this means to me.
Speaker 2: I never thought i'd get to tell you your ministry
Speaker 2: saved my life. I said, thank you, man, that means
Speaker 2: a lot, Praise the Lord. He said, no, you don't
Speaker 2: get it. You don't understand. I mean, I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 2: kind of I'm former military. A lot of PTSD daughters
Speaker 2: about to go out there and play soccer, man, and
Speaker 2: I'm talking about I went from a gun in my
Speaker 2: mouth to watching my daughter play soccer.
Speaker 1: So thank you man.
Speaker 2: So then I gave him a bigger hug. I said, Bro,
Speaker 2: the whole soccer season was worth me getting to meet you.
Speaker 2: He goes, yeah, I didn't know whether to come up
Speaker 2: at first. I didn't recognize you with your beard.
Speaker 1: Now that threw me.
Speaker 2: Because I learned how a beard for a minute. I
Speaker 2: had a beard for about a decade. I said, I
Speaker 2: thought you went to the church. I said this, do
Speaker 2: you still go to the church. Now we're laughing, right,
Speaker 2: we're laughing, and we already had our emotional moment, so
Speaker 2: I could pick on him a little bit and I said, Bro,
Speaker 2: you ought to know I have a beard.
Speaker 1: You ought to have seen me since I had a beard.
Speaker 1: What happened? And I wanted to bring my teaching screen
Speaker 1: because I think.
Speaker 2: This is going to be the most helpful if I
Speaker 2: make it visual, if you think about what he shared
Speaker 2: with me when we met.
Speaker 1: It had a very dramatic sound to it. And I
Speaker 1: believe that God does miracles.
Speaker 2: I do believe that people flush the pills instead of
Speaker 2: swallowing them when God brings them out.
Speaker 1: I do believe that.
Speaker 2: I do believe that God can take away the taste
Speaker 2: for alcohol. And you say, I don't even know how
Speaker 2: I drink it. It feels like urine in my refrigerator.
Speaker 1: Now I don't want it. I believe that God can
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 2: Now they're going to clip me for talking about urine
Speaker 2: and the refrigerator, but I'm good with it. And the
Speaker 2: main thing I want you to know is that God
Speaker 2: can get you out of this. But I want to
Speaker 2: be very careful with my summary. And I believe the
Speaker 2: reason that some of us are slow to applaud when
Speaker 2: I say it is because you've heard it before.
Speaker 1: And he did, and then it didn't.
Speaker 2: So the way I saw it, as I was breaking
Speaker 2: down what he said to me, he said, I went
Speaker 2: from a very low place, a horrible place, the worst
Speaker 2: place I wanted to end my life from the things
Speaker 2: that I've been through and the things that I can't.
Speaker 1: Forget.
Speaker 2: And now God brought me to a much better place.
Speaker 2: Look at us out here on the soccer field. But
Speaker 2: that beard made me ask him what's been going on
Speaker 2: in between from.
Speaker 1: And two? And he said, well, I kind of I
Speaker 1: kind of been going through some things.
Speaker 2: And I realized is that when God brings you from something,
Speaker 2: zoom all the way out to him. I need you
Speaker 2: to get that screen. Thank you very much. When God
Speaker 2: brings you from something to something, it does not always
Speaker 2: feel like a straight line. Sometimes it takes you through
Speaker 2: a red sea that is even scarier than the slavery
Speaker 2: that God brought you from. And I realize that not
Speaker 2: only he, but everybody in this room today is not
Speaker 2: only going from something to something, but there is something
Speaker 2: that you are going through, as you are going to say,
Speaker 2: from say to say, through no wonder. Jesus told the
Speaker 2: disciples when you pray, not if you pray, you better pray.
Speaker 2: And when you do pray like this, elbow your neighbor
Speaker 2: in their ribs and say you better pray. Tell them,
Speaker 2: I looked at your TikTok, you better pray. I saw
Speaker 2: your snapchat.
Speaker 1: You better pray. I met your wife. You no say
Speaker 1: that to him. I met your kids. You better pray.
Speaker 1: But it is a chat.
Speaker 2: You better pray because it is just not that simple
Speaker 2: when God delivers you. You see how Jesus says it
Speaker 2: in verse three, I want to read it again, he says,
Speaker 2: but deliver us from the evil one.
Speaker 1: I was talking to another friend.
Speaker 2: This week and they said, oh, I've got great news
Speaker 2: about our friend. And our other friend was someone who
Speaker 2: had really, really damaged a lot of relationships and disappointed
Speaker 2: a lot of people, and the amount of dysfunction and
Speaker 2: betrayal was incredible with this person. And my friend was
Speaker 2: telling me, Oh, it's all better now they got delivered,
Speaker 2: and I smiled, but I doubted it.
Speaker 1: I doubted it, and I felt bad that I doubted it.
Speaker 2: Because why do I believe it when it's in the Bible,
Speaker 2: But I don't believe it when it's somebody that betrayed me?
Speaker 2: And when Jesus talks about forgive them, you know, and freedom.
Speaker 2: There are three elements to this model prayer. We call
Speaker 2: it the Lord's prayer, but it's really just Jesus pulling
Speaker 2: his disciples aside and saying, here's how you do it.
Speaker 1: When you pray, you want to know how to do it.
Speaker 2: You want to know how to avoid the things that
Speaker 2: God wants to take you over, and you want to
Speaker 2: know how to rise up above the things that.
Speaker 1: You're crushed up under.
Speaker 2: When you pray, pray like this, our Father in heaven,
Speaker 2: holl will be your name, your kingdom come, your will
Speaker 2: be done.
Speaker 1: So first it's about his priorities.
Speaker 2: But then when you start praying about provision, I want
Speaker 2: you to think in three terms. He uses food, he
Speaker 2: uses forgiveness, and they'llbe he uses freedom.
Speaker 1: He says, God's going to give you bread.
Speaker 2: God's going to give you the ability to forgive, and
Speaker 2: He's going to give you forgiveness for your sins.
Speaker 1: And you don't really get to experience one without the other.
Speaker 2: And so Jesus says, there's gonna be food, there's gonna
Speaker 2: be forgiveness.
Speaker 1: And then he makes this promise. He says, deliver us
Speaker 1: from the evil one.
Speaker 2: Now, when you were saved, you were not just saved
Speaker 2: by God through Jesus from your sins. You were saved
Speaker 2: to walk in the newness of life. I said, you
Speaker 2: weren't just saved from hell. It's not just so you
Speaker 2: won't pop like oravile Reddenbachers one day while a guy
Speaker 2: with a pitchfork stands over you.
Speaker 5: Burn, Burn Burn.
Speaker 2: I'm not just saved from something that's going to happen
Speaker 2: one day. I am saved today to walk in the
Speaker 2: newness of life, not one day when but here and now,
Speaker 2: matter of fact, this is the day that the Lord
Speaker 2: has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it.
Speaker 2: God saved me from and God saved me too. But
Speaker 2: that does not negate the fact that I am going through.
Speaker 2: And he told me I went from wanting to end
Speaker 2: my life to standing here with my daughter. But to
Speaker 2: be honest with you, this is what he said. Next,
Speaker 2: he said, I've been going back to some things. I've
Speaker 2: been going back. And I didn't embarrass him.
Speaker 1: I said, I get it.
Speaker 2: We all go back. Sometimes I will embarrass you if
Speaker 2: you keep looking at me like you're so holy you
Speaker 2: never go back. Sometimes the Lord will give me the
Speaker 2: spirit of prophecy, and I'll call out your sin so
Speaker 2: specific and I'll alphabetize them and I'll say them in Greek.
Speaker 1: I've been going back, he said.
Speaker 2: Well, that made me think not only about the Lord's
Speaker 2: prayer where he said, deliver us from the evil one,
Speaker 2: and when he said you should pray this, it made
Speaker 2: me think about the central story in the Old Testament.
Speaker 1: To the people of God.
Speaker 2: Now, I want to give this to you as quickly
Speaker 2: as possible. How much do you know about Moses?
Speaker 1: Do you know that he lifted up his staff and
Speaker 1: parted the Red Sea and the people went through. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you know that.
Speaker 2: Do you know that the people had to walk through
Speaker 2: walls of water on either side, probably terrified that they would.
Speaker 1: Collapse at any time.
Speaker 2: You know that? So you know that when God brought
Speaker 2: them from Egypt to the Promised Land, they had to
Speaker 2: go through something to get there, and they had to
Speaker 2: go through something that they had never been through before,
Speaker 2: and that people normally didn't go through. The good news
Speaker 2: was they made it through. Their enemies didn't. The good
Speaker 2: news is God used what they went through to free
Speaker 2: them from what they would have been tempted to go
Speaker 2: back to. Is God using what you're going through?
Speaker 1: I believe that he is. I believe that not only
Speaker 1: can God get you out of this?
Speaker 2: How many have been praying the prayer lately, God, get
Speaker 2: me out of this in an area of your life. God,
Speaker 2: if you get me out of this, I promise I will.
Speaker 2: I promise, I'll take notes. I promise I will listen
Speaker 2: to I promise I'll listen to elevation worship.
Speaker 1: I promise I'll listen. I promise God, I promise, God,
Speaker 1: if you will.
Speaker 2: Get me out if she if that pregnancy test could
Speaker 2: just come to God, if you could just get me
Speaker 2: out of this, because I did not mean for it
Speaker 2: to be a lifelong commitment.
Speaker 1: God, get me out of this.
Speaker 2: I will never sign a lease again on a card
Speaker 2: that cost me seventeen thousand dollars a month to look
Speaker 2: stupid driving down the road in traffic. People aren't paying
Speaker 2: attention and I got ulcers.
Speaker 1: God, get me out of this. Get me out of this.
Speaker 2: God, if you will get me out of this, and
Speaker 2: then you know, like we were in the hospital with
Speaker 2: Elijah earlier this summer, and I'm like, God, if you
Speaker 2: get me out of this, I'll take the whole church.
Speaker 1: On a mission trip. God will go to India.
Speaker 2: I'll launch a elevation cap, cut up God, whatever you do, Orphans, widows, peggars, whatever,
Speaker 2: bring them onm God.
Speaker 1: And you know, ten minutes after you get out of it,
Speaker 1: you're eating ice cream.
Speaker 2: Because sometimes deliverance isn't always dramatic. That's what I want
Speaker 2: to say to you today, because I think you've been discouraged,
Speaker 2: because you've been thinking, Oh, I thought I was through
Speaker 2: with this, but now I'm going back. And if we
Speaker 2: ask you you'll share your testimony that you went from
Speaker 2: death to life.
Speaker 1: But sometimes where is my pen? Jesus huh? I put
Speaker 1: it on the thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes I find myself going back to what He
Speaker 2: brought me from, don't you. I met a lady who
Speaker 2: was telling me she lost eighty pounds. I said, congratulations.
Speaker 2: She said, don't congratulate me so quick. I said, eighty
Speaker 2: pounds sounds like a reason to celebrate. She said no,
Speaker 2: because ten years ago I lost one hundred and ten
Speaker 2: and I put it all back on.
Speaker 1: I went back.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, that's not funny. I don't say that
Speaker 2: as a joke. I don't say that to Shamer. We
Speaker 2: all have things that we thought we were through with.
Speaker 2: We all have places we thought we had arrived too.
Speaker 2: But now I want to go back and in amazing
Speaker 2: With the Israelites, you know, it's a crazy story. God
Speaker 2: brings them from Egypt. They were enslaved for four hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty years. They pray for God to bring them
Speaker 2: from that place. Deliver us Lord, God sends a deliver
Speaker 2: and they're in an interesting predicament. They are out of Egypt,
Speaker 2: but they have nothing to eat because they are going
Speaker 2: through the wilderness in that tricky when you're out of Egypt,
Speaker 2: but you got nothing to eat.
Speaker 1: And if you go to.
Speaker 2: Exitus chapter sixteen, verse two through four, it gives us
Speaker 2: an interesting glimpse of what happens in our life.
Speaker 1: Somebody say, God, get me out of this. I know
Speaker 1: I'm asking you to.
Speaker 2: Multitask and look up the scripture at the same time
Speaker 2: you say something, but say it again. God, get me
Speaker 2: out of this. Say God, if you get me out
Speaker 2: of this, I'll give you all the glory. I'll tie
Speaker 2: twenty five percent. How we do, God, get me out
Speaker 2: of this. So they prayed, right, They prayed for years
Speaker 2: and years. God deliver us from Pharaoh. Pharaoh was the
Speaker 2: one who was making them make bricks without straw. Just
Speaker 2: get us out of this, God, if you get us
Speaker 2: out of this, we'll serve you. And in fact, when
Speaker 2: they crossed over the Red Sea, they were shaking tambourines
Speaker 2: and singing about the horse and the right of the
Speaker 2: original disc track was sung by the prophetess Miriam in
Speaker 2: Exodus chapter fifteen.
Speaker 1: That's a true story.
Speaker 2: And just after they made it through the sea, they
Speaker 2: found themselves not in Egypt.
Speaker 1: God delivered them.
Speaker 2: From Egypt, But they are not yet two the promised land,
Speaker 2: and they have come through the Red Sea, but they
Speaker 2: are now in the desert, and they are starving, and
Speaker 2: they are hungry, and they are uncomfortable, and they are
Speaker 2: disoriented because the desert is disorienting. It's not where you're going,
Speaker 2: and it's not where you came from, and you don't
Speaker 2: know what to do in this season, and that can
Speaker 2: cause tremendous anxiety, and so they begin to grumble. Look
Speaker 2: at Exodus chapter sixteen, verse two. Can I teach the
Speaker 2: Bible today in the desert the whole community grumbled against
Speaker 2: Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, if only
Speaker 2: we had died by the Lord's hand in Egypt, there
Speaker 2: we sat around pots of meat and ate all the
Speaker 2: carnivore diet we wanted.
Speaker 1: But you have brought us.
Speaker 2: Out from this land into this desert to starve this
Speaker 2: entire assembly to death. Today, I'm speaking to somebody who
Speaker 2: feels like you are dying in a desert. You are
Speaker 2: not in the from, you were not in the two.
Speaker 1: You were in the three.
Speaker 2: And God did some amazing things from you, and he
Speaker 2: delivered you from some evil things, some wicked things.
Speaker 1: But you kind of go back sometimes, don't you. You
Speaker 1: kind of go back.
Speaker 2: Some scholars say that it should have taken them three
Speaker 2: weeks to go through the desert, but they got stuck
Speaker 2: there for forty years because what should have been a
Speaker 2: line through the desert turned into a loop, and around
Speaker 2: and around they went, and around and.
Speaker 1: Around we go.
Speaker 2: And God saved me. But I still struggle with that.
Speaker 2: And God healed me, but I still have some pain
Speaker 2: from that. And I forgave them, but I wanted to
Speaker 2: flip them off. When I saw him the other day
Speaker 2: and they came out of nowhere. Because I have been
Speaker 2: praying for him, I was almost too come on, y'all,
Speaker 2: help me shout.
Speaker 1: I'll preach quicker.
Speaker 2: I'll have you out for lunch if you will help
Speaker 2: me shout. You know, there are some bondages that keep
Speaker 2: pulling you back, that keep pulling you back, because I'm
Speaker 2: not in heaven yet. And I am saved, I'm healed,
Speaker 2: I'm delivered, I'm redeemed, i am cleansed, i am watched by.
Speaker 1: The blood of the Lamb. I'm a child of God,
Speaker 1: I'm the righteousness of Christ. And all of that is true.
Speaker 2: I am brought from the dominion of darkness and saved
Speaker 2: to the kingdom of his marvelous lights. To declare the
Speaker 2: praises of Him who brought me out of darkness into
Speaker 2: his marvelous life. And on my way into the marvelous light,
Speaker 2: I am going through some darkness that I thought I
Speaker 2: was done with, but I wound up in this desert.
Speaker 1: And now I'm kind of.
Speaker 2: Hungry and I have nothing to eat, and I'm kind
Speaker 2: of mad about it, and I'm kind of wondering what
Speaker 2: it'd be better for me to go back. But if
Speaker 2: I keep going back to what God saved me from,
Speaker 2: I musa spend forty years. I musa spend a whole lifetime.
Speaker 2: And I've been going around this mountain long enough. And
Speaker 2: I do not intend to get stuck in this same
Speaker 2: place that my mama was in, that her mama was in,
Speaker 2: that his and her daddy was in. I intend to
Speaker 2: break a generational chain in the name of Jesus Shane's
Speaker 2: break drive bon sway.
Speaker 1: I do not intend to name every bone in the valley.
Speaker 1: I intend to go through it. The Lord is my shepherd.
Speaker 2: I shall not want he maketh me to lie down
Speaker 2: in green pastures. Yea, though I walk through the valley
Speaker 2: of the out of a bed. This is not a
Speaker 2: place for me to build a house. This is not
Speaker 2: a place for me to build an identity.
Speaker 1: This is not a place for me to lay down
Speaker 1: and die. I'm taking this gun.
Speaker 3: Out of my mouth and I sound.
Speaker 1: God can get you out of this. God can get
Speaker 1: you out of this. Tell seven people, God can get
Speaker 1: you out of this.
Speaker 2: God can get you out of this. God can get
Speaker 2: you out of this. I'm not telling you what I think.
Speaker 2: I'm not telling you what I feel. I'm telling you
Speaker 2: what i've seen. I'm telling you what I know.
Speaker 1: God can get you out of this, but he wants
Speaker 1: something more when he does, he wants glory out of it.
Speaker 1: And so the Bible says that they grumbled, and we
Speaker 1: would too.
Speaker 2: Y'all are kind of mad right now because I'm preaching
Speaker 2: a little long and there's air conditioning in this building,
Speaker 2: and they're in the desert with nothing to eat and
Speaker 2: no idea where it's gonna come from.
Speaker 1: Now watch this, because I am about to set you up.
Speaker 2: And you even when i'm gonna telling you that, you're
Speaker 2: gonna shout when I read this verse but I am
Speaker 2: setting you up, so I advise you not to shout
Speaker 2: when I read the verse.
Speaker 1: But you're gonna shout anyway because you're too good.
Speaker 2: Then the Lord said to Moses, I will rain down
Speaker 2: bread from.
Speaker 1: Heaven for you. See impossible.
Speaker 2: Try not to shout challenge, I mean, the Lord said,
Speaker 2: Did you hear what he said, Jethroe, He said, he
Speaker 2: gonna rain down bread from heaven your kingdom.
Speaker 6: Come.
Speaker 2: Your will be done on earth as it is. He's
Speaker 2: gonna rain down bread from heaven real quick.
Speaker 1: Gt.
Speaker 2: They would have known this story when he was teaching
Speaker 2: it to the disciples when he said, give us this
Speaker 2: day our daily bread. That triggered a memory for them,
Speaker 2: not one that they lived through when they heard about
Speaker 2: because they heard about how the Israelites went through the
Speaker 2: Red Sea from Egypt to Canaan. Through the Red Sea,
Speaker 2: the Egyptians drowned. They didn't got in the desert, wanted
Speaker 2: to die. And God said, I will rain down bread
Speaker 2: from heaven for you.
Speaker 5: For you, the Lord is your provider. The Lord is
Speaker 5: your sustainer. The Lord is your satisfire. The Lord is
Speaker 5: your fulfillment. The Lord is your deliver God delivers on
Speaker 5: his promise, and I am happy for these people here.
Speaker 5: What He's gonna rain it down?
Speaker 2: Now? The last time they saw something raining down out
Speaker 2: of the sky was in Egypt when God started dropping frogs.
Speaker 2: You remember this to get Pharaoh to let his people go.
Speaker 2: But now God said, when you look up, you're not
Speaker 2: gonna see frogs, You're gonna see manna. You know what
Speaker 2: mana means?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 2: Because you're not gonna know what it is, but it's
Speaker 2: from me. I don't know what it is, but it's
Speaker 2: from God. I don't know what to call it yet,
Speaker 2: but it's from God. I don't know how to label
Speaker 2: it yet, but I don't wanna label it because if
Speaker 2: I labeled it, imit it limited.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, but.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give God time to show me what he's
Speaker 2: doing in my life. And he said, I will rain
Speaker 2: down bread from heaven for you. And don't you know
Speaker 2: they wrote a song about that, Bread from Heaven, Rain
Speaker 2: on us, Bread from Heaven, Rain on us, Rain on
Speaker 2: us on bread of Heaven on a ring. You know,
Speaker 2: different denominations had different versions of it, but they're all
Speaker 2: saying about the bread and the rain and the food.
Speaker 1: And all right, so stay woman, stay women, now say woman.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: He said, I'm gonna make it rain. Oh, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be amazing. But there is a.
Speaker 2: Condition on this provision. It's gonna rain down bread from
Speaker 2: heaven for you. He's gonna provide for you. I'm saying
Speaker 2: this to you now. I'm not talking to them. I'm
Speaker 2: talking to you.
Speaker 1: God is going to provide for you. But there's going
Speaker 1: to be a condition on the provision. And here it is.
Speaker 2: The people are to go out each day and gather
Speaker 2: enough for that day in this way, in what way?
Speaker 2: By gathering enough for this day, everybody say this day,
Speaker 2: God said, I Am going to make it rain so
Speaker 2: much bread from heaven for you that it's gonna feed millions.
Speaker 1: But the bread that comes down from heaven, that's the promise.
Speaker 1: The provision is.
Speaker 2: Going to be set with a certain condition that people
Speaker 2: are to go out each day and gather enough for that.
Speaker 1: Day in this way. That's how God's going to do it.
Speaker 2: You are going to open up your tent tomorrow morning
Speaker 2: and there will be mana and it will be enough
Speaker 2: for you and your family that day. It will be
Speaker 2: enough for you that day. But if you expect there
Speaker 2: to be enough mana to fill your pantry.
Speaker 1: You're going to be disappointed.
Speaker 2: Because I Am going to provide for you in such
Speaker 2: a way that makes it impossible.
Speaker 1: For you to depend on the supply more than you
Speaker 1: depend on the source. So it's going to be enough
Speaker 1: for now. Say enough for now, and that's what God
Speaker 1: has given you. Enough for now. You're not supposed to
Speaker 1: do all of your breathing by nine am. Imagine if
Speaker 1: you try, what are you doing? Get my breath in?
Speaker 2: I gotta get my steps in, I gotta get my
Speaker 2: breast in. It doesn't work like that. You get one breath,
Speaker 2: then another breath. You get one breath, then another breath.
Speaker 2: And when you go through something so terrible you can't
Speaker 2: even talk about it, your job description gets really simple.
Speaker 2: Next breath, next breath, next breath. I'm talking to somebody
Speaker 2: who it is so terrible what you're going through right now.
Speaker 2: You have no idea what to do. I came to
Speaker 2: give you clarity. Next breath. And if he fills your
Speaker 2: lungs with the next breath, then you say hallelujah. That's
Speaker 2: your response. And if he fills your lungs with the
Speaker 2: next breath, then you move forward. That's your response. And
Speaker 2: if he gives you the next breath, why not give
Speaker 2: him the best praise you can give him with the
Speaker 2: breath that he gave you. And if it works with
Speaker 2: the breath, watch this, it will work with the bread.
Speaker 2: Because Jesus said, pray like this. Give us this day
Speaker 2: our monthly stipend, Give us this day our ten year plan,
Speaker 2: give us this day our retirement age.
Speaker 1: Give us this day what we need from this day.
Speaker 7: And the only one who knows what I need for
Speaker 7: this day is the one who's already in tomorrow working
Speaker 7: all things that would be like preaching together for the
Speaker 7: good of.
Speaker 1: Those that love him. Oh high five.
Speaker 2: Somebody say it's gonna happen today. It's gonna happen today.
Speaker 2: It's gonna happen today. Hey, this is one thing that
Speaker 2: God and Amazon have in common.
Speaker 1: This is one thing that Jesus and Jeff Bezos have
Speaker 1: in common. They both do saying day delivery. So I'm
Speaker 1: saying God.
Speaker 3: So I'm saying we they may endure for the night,
Speaker 3: but say comes in.
Speaker 2: Morning. I'm not talking about toilet paper at your doorstep.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about truth in your heart. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: God to give you the word you need for this day.
Speaker 2: You better read that thing today. By Monday morning, this
Speaker 2: man message you will be moldy. You can't eat a
Speaker 2: moldy message.
Speaker 1: You've got to open your phone tomorrow morning and say, this.
Speaker 8: Day, gossha, I'm gonna give you enough. I'm gonna give
Speaker 8: you enough for now.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: If you insist on trying to deal with anything beyond
Speaker 2: the parameters of the promise of your strength for today,
Speaker 2: expect to feel stressed. And now you are stuck in
Speaker 2: something that one preacher called the loop. When it was
Speaker 2: meant to be a lie.
Speaker 1: Pray like this, he.
Speaker 2: Said, give us this day. Man, I found out you
Speaker 2: can never give up on God. The Lord is like
Speaker 2: an MMA fighter. He will let it look like the
Speaker 2: devil is whinning all five rounds, and then he will
Speaker 2: find he will find the weirdest hole to put the
Speaker 2: devil in it. The Lord can work with anything too.
Speaker 2: You ever seen an MMA fight UFC fight and it
Speaker 2: looks like they're about to lose, and all of a
Speaker 2: sudden they get an arm and they crank that armback,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, the entire five rounds that
Speaker 2: came before are irrelevant because of something that happened so quick. Yes,
Speaker 2: I'm telling you what I've seen God do in my life,
Speaker 2: even my own son. Right now, he's starting to teach
Speaker 2: the Bible and share God's word with people, and I am.
Speaker 1: So proud of him. Living Room Charlotte. Make it a
Speaker 1: destination bucket list trip. Everybody check it out.
Speaker 2: But he's starting to understand now that he's teaching the
Speaker 2: Bible a little bit.
Speaker 1: Why dad was in a bad mood. Eighty five percent
Speaker 1: of it childhood. Oh I get it now, No wonder.
Speaker 2: My dad was so like zonked out on Saturday nights,
Speaker 2: just staring at the wall while we were all eating dinner.
Speaker 1: And I try to do a good job, but boy,
Speaker 1: he said something to bless me the other day. Can
Speaker 1: I share this with you? He said, I'm I'm coming
Speaker 1: up dry. I got nothing for this week. This man
Speaker 1: don't talk to me, neither do I. How do I
Speaker 1: get your own?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: I'm coming over to my tent trying to take my manna.
Speaker 1: But the Lord dealt with me, and I said, all right,
Speaker 1: all right.
Speaker 2: He texted me next day he said, I am I
Speaker 2: don't know what to do, and I'm like, God, why
Speaker 2: why can't I have somebody to like, phone a friend
Speaker 2: who wants to be a millionaire.
Speaker 1: But he said, I really don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: I really don't know what to do.
Speaker 2: And I said something to him on text. I said,
Speaker 2: I can get you there, call me right now. My
Speaker 2: phone never rang so quick now from one of my kids.
Speaker 2: It's normally like a two three business day turnaround with
Speaker 2: these kids. Oh, instant supply and demand.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 2: We start talking on the phone. And I was even
Speaker 2: in the middle of my workout. I don't even want
Speaker 2: to tell you how much weight I was close grip benching.
Speaker 2: It'll make you jealous. I'm in the middle of my workout,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, maybe you could share about boom
Speaker 2: boom boom. It was crazy because I start sharing him
Speaker 2: what I was going to share with you. But then
Speaker 2: I had to have the faith God to give me
Speaker 2: something else.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And when I hung up the phone with him and
Speaker 2: he said, I'm ready now, a message came to me.
Speaker 1: In five minutes.
Speaker 2: God can download something. I'm on same day delivery. Same
Speaker 2: day delivery didn't have it yesterday. And you know what
Speaker 2: Graham said. He said, I've never experienced anything like that.
Speaker 1: I said, what was it? He said.
Speaker 2: I went from regretting that I ever even started the
Speaker 2: Bible study to I wish I could preach it right
Speaker 2: now in one phone call.
Speaker 1: And I am telling you.
Speaker 2: That if you call God, I said, if you call God,
Speaker 2: if you call God, you can go from wishing I
Speaker 2: never even did this, to thinking, God, what is it
Speaker 2: that you have next for me? And all it's going
Speaker 2: to take is for you to come to him and say,
Speaker 2: I need it this day, my daily bread.
Speaker 1: I need this day.
Speaker 2: Oh, I understand it now. I've been wanting to go
Speaker 2: back to Egypt or I've been looking too far forward
Speaker 2: too and back and too, and God says, I want
Speaker 2: to do something in your life right now.
Speaker 1: But it's going to be delivered daily, daily, daily.
Speaker 2: I don't know who this is for, but it's gonna
Speaker 2: get there when it's supposed to, and not a minute before,
Speaker 2: because if God did it too quick, you would get
Speaker 2: through it, but he wouldn't get glory from it. So
Speaker 2: it's gonna get there. Watch this, y'all leaving, y'all about
Speaker 2: to miss a good close. It's gonna get there when
Speaker 2: it's meant to. And look at your neighbors say, not
Speaker 2: a minute before, not a minute before I'm gonna finish
Speaker 2: this sermon when it's supposed to be over, and not
Speaker 2: a minute before I'm gonna finish this sermon when I
Speaker 2: get through my scripture, and not a minute before.
Speaker 1: And sometimes God will let you.
Speaker 2: Sing praises with silas in prison all night, and all
Speaker 2: night you'll sing, and all night you'll praise, and the
Speaker 2: chains will stay all night. But the Bible says in Acts,
Speaker 2: chapter sixteen, verse twenty five, at midnight and not a
Speaker 2: minute before.
Speaker 1: It couldn't have happened in eleven fifty nine.
Speaker 2: It had to happen in the morning, because joy comes
Speaker 2: in the morning, and manna comes in the morning, and
Speaker 2: wisdom comes in the morning, and provision comes in the morning,
Speaker 2: and food comes in the morning, and forgiveness comes in
Speaker 2: the morning, and freedom comes in the morning. And I
Speaker 2: don't know how I read the Lord's Prayer so many times,
Speaker 2: and I never saw that all three have the same condition,
Speaker 2: the food and the forgiveness and the freedom. The food, food,
Speaker 2: and the forgiveness and the freedom. Y'all get ready to
Speaker 2: help me shout, I'm so excited. I never saw it before.
Speaker 2: But the food and the forgiveness and the freedom all
Speaker 2: had the same condition attached to them. When Jesus said,
Speaker 2: you pray, you pray to God in heaven, and you
Speaker 2: say his name is holy.
Speaker 1: And you ask for his kingdom to come, and you
Speaker 1: ask him day bye day bye day by day.
Speaker 2: And I always heard that about the food, and I
Speaker 2: always heard that about the forgiveness. But I never understood
Speaker 2: that the same thing that is true about the food
Speaker 2: and the forgiveness is also true about the freedom. I
Speaker 2: need to be delivered daily, daily, And yes you were
Speaker 2: saved suddenly, but you still need to be delivered daily.
Speaker 2: And yes you are forgiven fully, but you still need
Speaker 2: to be delivered daily. And every time you are tempted
Speaker 2: to go back, go back.
Speaker 1: Say it again.
Speaker 2: When you are tempted to go back, go back, because
Speaker 2: this is going to be a daily delivery.
Speaker 1: There's going to be a daily delivery.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but when I say chains break,
Speaker 2: I'm not singing about what happened once.
Speaker 1: I need him to break one every day. How many
Speaker 1: need God to break a chain today? I ain't broke
Speaker 1: one yesterday.
Speaker 2: I need another one today because here's why, Because here's why, y'all,
Speaker 2: my chain start having baby chains. I get rid of one,
Speaker 2: here comes another one. I leave Egypt and here comes wilderness.
Speaker 2: This day my daily bread, and I believe that the
Speaker 2: daily deliverance of God is available to every Christian in
Speaker 2: this room. I know.
Speaker 1: That God brought them out of Egypt.
Speaker 2: But what's wild about it is it only took God
Speaker 2: ten plagues to get his people out of Egypt.
Speaker 1: It took forty years to get Egypt out of his people.
Speaker 1: So the question really isn't can God get you out
Speaker 1: of this?
Speaker 2: Is?
Speaker 1: Can God get this out of you? I believe he can.
Speaker 2: You don't have to live with that shame. God can
Speaker 2: get it out of you. But it's daily coming to
Speaker 2: the Cross of Christ. Take communion in your house if
Speaker 2: you have to, don't wait for quarterly communion in church.
Speaker 2: Get some welches, get a high sea. I don't drink
Speaker 2: a diet coke. God will bless it. You think it's
Speaker 2: something holy about the juice we have in here. We
Speaker 2: get it from the same publics you get it from.
Speaker 2: Drink it in private, and let God cleanse you of
Speaker 2: your sin. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus daily read. I never saw
Speaker 2: it I saw daily read. I thought that was what
Speaker 2: I needed every day, always gonna provide, He's gonna get
Speaker 2: me Strengthen today is you know, God's, and tomorrow is
Speaker 2: the Lord's and all this. And I saw that, But
Speaker 2: I didn't see that the same condition that is on
Speaker 2: the food daily is on the deliverance. So I was
Speaker 2: I was shocked by my shackles because I thought they
Speaker 2: were gone m hm, until I found out there. Just
Speaker 2: like I can go back to him for provision, just
Speaker 2: like I can go back to him for forgiveness, I
Speaker 2: can go back to him and back to him and
Speaker 2: back to him.
Speaker 1: I don't have to go back to Egypt. I don't
Speaker 1: have to go back to Pharaoh. I can go back
Speaker 1: to my father. And when you pray, they like this
Speaker 1: our father, which ard In had hello, it be thy name,
Speaker 1: stand up, thy king, thy will bede as it is.
Speaker 2: In.
Speaker 1: George Altman used to sing this in the Methodist church
Speaker 1: where I grew up. You say, give us this day
Speaker 1: our dayly bread. Do you see what it is? It's
Speaker 1: daily bread? And forgive us our debts? What's that called?
Speaker 1: As we forgive our dead? Ers write something like that.
Speaker 1: But I never saw that the same daily bread.
Speaker 2: The same hand that gives me daily bread is for
Speaker 2: the daily battle, and lead.
Speaker 6: Us not into temptation, but deliver us and deliver us,
Speaker 6: and deliver us, and deliver us, and deliver us, and
Speaker 6: deliver us and deliver us from me.
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